September 6, 2017Review of Hot Air Component Rework
When surface-mount components started to take over, edging out
through-hole components, a number of hot air-based rework systems
appeared on the scene. Many were large, some small, but ...

September 6, 2017Restoring Gold Edge Connectors
From time to time, gold edge contacts become contaminated with solder. This most often occurs during reflow of an assembly, and may be caused by solder spatter, or solder paste contamination ...

August 2, 2017Changing a Conductor Path at a BGA Site
This feature describes how to rework a BGA site. The rework
involved changing the circuit paths at the BGA sites, which required not
only adding new circuits, but also severing the old circuits ...

August 2, 2017Base Board Burn Repair - How and Why
Cosmetic surgery is big business today, but our discussion here is not about facelifts or tummy tucks. We're concerned with the cosmetic touch ups we must often apply to circuit boards...

Customer Comments"We were certain the circuit board we sent to you were beyond repair, but we sent them anyway. They came back, we tested them, and they all functioned perfectly. Job well done!" A.Z. Guadalupe, Mexico